Illuminated display

Abstract

An electrically illuminated advertising display for continuously exhibiting consumer products in a range of colors. The advertising display has a light source in the interior of a housing; a translucent screen forming the front portion of the housing, at least one rotatable disk interposed between the translucent screen and the light source, at least one light conducting element interposed between the translucent screen and the rotating disk, and a small fractional horsepower motor for continuously rotating the disk. The translucent screen has a thin outer photographic film with a translucent base layer and a clear transparent sheet which is bonded at its outer edges to the photographic film. One end portion of the light conducting element is bonded to a clear plastic sheet behind the photographic film and has a shape which corresponds to a portion of an image on the photographic film. The rotating disk has an arrangement of filters for projecting a range of colors via the light conducting element on to the translucent screen.

I claim: 
     
       1. An electrically illuminated advertising display for continuously exhibiting articles of personal adornment in a range of colors, comprising: a housing, a light source mounted in an interior of said housing for projecting a beam of light on to an image of one of said articles of personal adornment on a translucent screen; said translucent screen forming a front portion of said housing, said translucent screen having an image of a person including one of said articles of personal adornment; at least one rotating disk interposed between said translucent screen and said light source, said rotating disk having an arrangement of filters for changing a color of said light beam which is projected by said light source, said filters being arranged on said disk to project said beam on the same portion of said screen; and at least one light conducting means interposed between said translucent screen and said rotating filter disk, said light conducting means having a shape for focusing and projecting said light beam on to said article of personal adornment included in said image of said person to continuously illuminate said article of personal adornment in said range of colors. 
     
     
       2. The advertising display recited in claim 1 wherein said light conducting means is a clear elongated plastic element. 
     
     
       3. The advertising display recited in claim 2 wherein said light conducting means has one end portion joined to said translucent screen. 
     
     
       4. The advertising display recited in claim 1 wherein said translucent screen is comprised of an outer thin sheet of photographic film having a white translucent base layer. 
     
     
       5. The advertising display recited in claim 4 further comprising a thin clear plastic sheet which is contiguous with the front surface of said photographic film and a thin plastic sheet which is contiguous with the rear surface of said photographic film. 
     
     
       6. The advertising display recited in claim 1 wherein said display is adapted to continuously exhibit contact lenses in said range of colors. 
     
     
       7. The advertising display recited in claim 1 wherein said display is adapted to continuously exhibit cosmetics in said range of colors. 
     
     
       8. An electrically illuminated advertising display for continuously exhibiting articles of personal adornment in a range of colors, comprising: a housing, a light source mounted in an interior of said housing for transmitting a light beam on to said transluscent screen; said translucent screen forming a front portion of said housing, said screen having an image of a person including one of said articles of personal adornment; at least one rotating disk interposed between said translucent screen and said light source, said rotating disk having an arrangement of filters for varying the color of the light beam which is transmitted by said light source, said filters being arranged on said disk to project said light beam on to the same portion of said screen; and at least one light conducting element interposed between said translucent screen and said rotating disk for focusing and projecting said light beam in said range of colors on to only said article of adornment in said image of said person on said translucent screen; and a means for continuously rotating said disk to continuously project light in said range of colors on to said translucent screen, said means for rotating said disk comprising a drive motor fixed to said housing and a resilient belt operatively connected to said drive motor and said disk. 
     
     
       9. The advertising display recited in claim 8 wherein said light source is a fluorescent light. 
     
     
       10. The advertising display recited in claim 8 wherein said display has a pair of light conducting means. 
     
     
       11. An electrically illuminated advertising display for continuously exhibiting articles of personal adornment in a range of colors, comprising: a housing, a light source mounted in an interior of said housing for projecting a light beam on to said translucent screen; a translucent screen forming a front portion of said housing, said translucent screen comprising an outer thin photographic film having a translucent base layer for diffusing said light beam through said photographic film and including an image of a person having one of said articles of adornment; at least one rotatable disk interposed between said translucent screen and said light source, said rotating disk having an arrangement of filters for varying the color of the light beam which is transmitted to said photographic film by said light source; and at least one light conducting element interposed between said translucent screen and said rotating disk, said light conducting element having one end portion adjacent to said photographic film having a shape which corresponds to said article of adornment in said image of said person on said photographic film. 
     
     
       12. The advertising display recited in claim 11 wherein said personal article of adornment in said image of said person is a pair of contact lenses and said arrangement of filters on said rotating disk is comprised of four equally angular spaced identical groups of filters, each of said groups consisting of four colors and said filters arranged on said disk to illuminate said contact lenses only with said range of colors.